An artificial intelligence can solve the CAPTCHA puzzles used by websites to distinguish whether browsers are humans or bots 100 per cent of the time. Andreas Plesner at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and ...

Advanced AI can defeat CAPTCHAs designed to prove web actions are being performed by humans instead of machines, so a better security mechanism is needed for the internet, new research indicates.

The big picture: Captcha tests, which require users to click on grids of images to verify they are human, are among the most annoying things on the internet. Nevertheless, most users accept that they ...

If those bothersome CAPTCHA prompts online seem to be getting harder, it’s because they are. The pesky puzzles are used to ward off bots that crash sites or jeopardize security but now are becoming ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Amanda Fennell, a cybersecurity expert, about CAPTCHA tests that verify if a website visitor is human or bot. They are getting harder. Just sec here. I'm trying to prove ...